{"id":5319,"date":"2020-10-22T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forths.com\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2020-11-28T19:34:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T00:34:30","slug":"metal-detecting-at-an-abandoned-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/22\/metal-detecting-at-an-abandoned-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Detecting at an Abandoned House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was chilly, overcast and occasionally rainy, so naturally I decided to spend some time outdoors. Ryan had stumbled on an abandoned house a few months ago while hiking. Yesterday, Nicki, Anthony and I took the same route and found the house. With the location nailed down, I decided to do some metal detecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The house was more like a hunting cabin, with just few rooms and an outhouse. It was cheaply built, with 2×4 construction and asphalt “brick” roll siding, suggesting that the house dates to the 1940s – 1950s. The house’s foundation was made of field stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sites like this tend to accumulate junk that others dump over the years, and this was no exception. Visible behind the house was a discarded metal bucket and remnants of a car muffler. Close to the house, the metal detector beeped constantly due to the amount of discarded garbage just below the surface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the treasures unearthed were an ax head, sardine can, pull tab, nail, some aluminum pieces, a bullet casing, a shotgun shell, and broken pieces of window glass. Nothing interesting and no coins. I’ll likely return to the site for a second try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n